REAL PLUTONIUM

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We're given special access to various plutonium compounds at the National Nuclear Laboratory, in Sellafield. A chance to meet the "Hannibal Lecter of the Periodic Table". With thanks to Mark Sarsfield and Chris Maher... www.nnl.co.uk/
In part this video shows how plutonium is extracted from nuclear fuel waste.
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  • @periodicvideos
    @periodicvideos4 жыл бұрын

    These videos are made by Brady Haran - check out his "Unmade Podcast" here: bit.ly/UnmadePlaylist

  • @yourallbrainwashed

    @yourallbrainwashed

    3 жыл бұрын

    World's first autotune @ 7:41

  • @JesusisJesus

    @JesusisJesus

    3 жыл бұрын

    Plutonium - Pu - pronounced “Poo”

  • @peds7808

    @peds7808

    3 жыл бұрын

    Crazy crazy frog you etssittDitfTzjratlzjtKtDllsktlfyyllzgllylyzlyyl,🧞‍♀️?:

  • @Disgusting12712

    @Disgusting12712

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@peds7808 wtf

  • @elliottrogers4789

    @elliottrogers4789

    2 жыл бұрын

    Swear Af

  • @kimikotanaka6713
    @kimikotanaka67135 жыл бұрын

    Me - "How often do you wear that tie?" Eccentric Scientist - "Periodically."

  • @RockLee679

    @RockLee679

    5 жыл бұрын

    Very underrated conment

  • @Bigtimboeproductions

    @Bigtimboeproductions

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kimiko Tanaka nice!!!!

  • @Rawdiswar

    @Rawdiswar

    4 жыл бұрын

    Legit LOL

  • @caseytaylor1487

    @caseytaylor1487

    4 жыл бұрын

    The best take!

  • @TXejas19

    @TXejas19

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stealing

  • @buddhabrew
    @buddhabrew8 жыл бұрын

    I knew that dude was legit the second I saw his hair.

  • @nielsvanleeuwen9345

    @nielsvanleeuwen9345

    8 жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha

  • @trendduos7679

    @trendduos7679

    8 жыл бұрын

    XD

  • @ThePantruca

    @ThePantruca

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Horus Osiris I think that he looks wonderful and fits the stereotype

  • @hoanhngo5758

    @hoanhngo5758

    8 жыл бұрын

    ROFL...just like my science teacher.

  • @GlassLegend40

    @GlassLegend40

    7 жыл бұрын

    I'm sure he didn't just accidently electricuted himself like, Benjamin

  • @jackrogers7395
    @jackrogers73953 жыл бұрын

    11:38 "rather like, the fruit inside a cake" *My brain:* *eat the plutonium*

  • @dededede6471

    @dededede6471

    3 жыл бұрын

    Enjoy your meal

  • @altheamantes2041

    @altheamantes2041

    3 жыл бұрын

    Enjoy hahaha Welcome to heaven bro

  • @annfokker

    @annfokker

    2 жыл бұрын

    that would be embarrassing.

  • @ssjdaley

    @ssjdaley

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me: and I took that personally.

  • @hamanakohamaneko7028

    @hamanakohamaneko7028

    2 жыл бұрын

    One stray neutron in your mouth initiates a chain reaction

  • @hni7458
    @hni74583 жыл бұрын

    The professor is truly great, because: - listening to him you really come to believe that you know and understand the ENG language perfectly well - he explains everything so that everybody, incl me, understands everything (imagine if all YT presenters be like him) - you really would wish to be one of his friends. Then I nearly would die for a another copy of his tie - truly a cool guy.

  • @sebastianperales3630

    @sebastianperales3630

    2 жыл бұрын

    You miss the most important thing, he has a great hair 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

  • @hni7458

    @hni7458

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sebastianperales3630 Yeah how true, that's cool too :)

  • @ConstantChaos1

    @ConstantChaos1

    Жыл бұрын

    -the hair

  • @lookoutforchris

    @lookoutforchris

    9 ай бұрын

    He still gets things wrong occasionally. Plutonium was discovered/created in late 1940 to early 1941 at the University of California, Berkeley, not in 1914 as the video states.

  • @SwingAxleLover

    @SwingAxleLover

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@lookoutforchrisI think he did say 1940, the two can sound quite similar

  • @lekoman
    @lekoman6 жыл бұрын

    That transition from the mushroom cloud to the professor's hair at 4:02 tho. ;D

  • @sirwhitemeat9785

    @sirwhitemeat9785

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @mug7692

    @mug7692

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sirwhitemeat9785 it took 1 year before anyone replied

  • @OriginalLito

    @OriginalLito

    5 жыл бұрын

    Damn

  • @sirwhitemeat9785

    @sirwhitemeat9785

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mug7692 weird huh cause it made me laugh so hard xD

  • @Nik-xi2ri

    @Nik-xi2ri

    5 жыл бұрын

    Premium Production capabilities

  • @mr.voidout4739
    @mr.voidout47394 жыл бұрын

    4:02 KZread Award nominee for best editing!

  • @bellicose4653

    @bellicose4653

    4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. Match on hair

  • @XCenturionX

    @XCenturionX

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @VisionElectricAus

    @VisionElectricAus

    4 жыл бұрын

    Touche

  • @mlamboms

    @mlamboms

    4 жыл бұрын

    Observation Award goes out to your sir. Well spotted!

  • @kevinluiz

    @kevinluiz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kkkkkkkkkkk

  • @bmzaron713
    @bmzaron7133 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand everything in this, but the professor really has a skill of making concepts relatable

  • @palli6458
    @palli64583 жыл бұрын

    "I'll take you to the moon" so outdated.. "I'll take you to plutonium laboratory" is so romantic 😂

  • @oximas

    @oximas

    2 жыл бұрын

    difinatly my favourite date😂

  • @heckler73
    @heckler734 жыл бұрын

    I did not feel like I wasted a second of the last 17 minutes. Thank you.

  • @emileponcelet3439

    @emileponcelet3439

    2 жыл бұрын

    Something educational is never a waste of time even if u dont get any of it

  • @heckler73

    @heckler73

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@emileponcelet3439 That may be true to the extent one's subconscious can be primed by the experience, but interest aids in retention, and retention aids in understanding. Time is limited by metabolic processes, so it would be wiser to apply one's attention to garnering knowledge of one's interests, if given the choice. So is it possible to 'waste' one's time on 'education'? I say yes, but perhaps with a caveat that one has an 'interest' in the first place. 'Education' is an interesting subject to ponder. Thanks for the thought provocation.

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree8 жыл бұрын

    the guy at 0:24 is everything that i imagined a chemical scientist to look like

  • @quasarsphere

    @quasarsphere

    8 жыл бұрын

    +tropicalpalmtree I was just about to make an identical comment when I saw yours!

  • @Halapep

    @Halapep

    8 жыл бұрын

    +quasarsphere Haha same here xD

  • @andreoliveira7420

    @andreoliveira7420

    8 жыл бұрын

    he look like a mad scientist

  • @user-ho1vt8vz2l

    @user-ho1vt8vz2l

    7 жыл бұрын

    he wants to be called Einstein

  • @alastair3223

    @alastair3223

    7 жыл бұрын

    Same lol

  • @peterbmeadows2000
    @peterbmeadows20002 жыл бұрын

    Why did I not pay more attention to chemistry at school?! This is fascinating stuff! Thank you guys

  • @psylee8687

    @psylee8687

    Жыл бұрын

    Your high school teacher does not have the credentials

  • @ConstantChaos1

    @ConstantChaos1

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't relate i was always a huge chemistry nerd, I actually went to a year of biochemical engineering school before I got burnt out and became a first responder instead

  • @miakaleighjj

    @miakaleighjj

    11 ай бұрын

    lol, Chemistry is interesting, but I don't like drawing element formations or memorizing the periodic tables, I rather watch this instead😂

  • @kyon-kyon-

    @kyon-kyon-

    10 ай бұрын

    when high school teachers do it it's boring.

  • @dimitristripakis7364

    @dimitristripakis7364

    9 ай бұрын

    As a high school teacher, if kids had this exact person talking exactly lile this inside the classroom, they would still fool around about his hair and only the same few would pay attention.

  • @Xanderviceory
    @Xanderviceory3 жыл бұрын

    This was 94 times more interesting than I thought it would be :-)

  • @robichj

    @robichj

    2 жыл бұрын

    I believe 92? Or are you adding uranium and plutonium...

  • @tinfoilbottle5943

    @tinfoilbottle5943

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robichj plutonium had an atomic number 94

  • @kermanguy1877
    @kermanguy18778 жыл бұрын

    How to safely handle common radioactive elements Uranium 1: Wear protective clothing on every part of your body, extra protection for vital areas. 2: Use a tool for extended grip, as to limit your proximity to uranium. 3: Remember to thoroughly clean all lab equipment and protective clothing after you have finished. Plutonium 1: Consider your life and all you would be throwing away. 2: Do not handle plutonium.

  • @user-xw1yh2py4j

    @user-xw1yh2py4j

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kerman Guy Or just surround them by several tons of dynamite and enjoy the show.

  • @cl4ster17

    @cl4ster17

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Eric Wesson As long as it's outside of your body yes. In fact a thicker sheet of paper or just 10cm of air is enough to stop the alpha radiation. But once it gets inside your body it gets messy

  • @jed-henrywitkowski6470

    @jed-henrywitkowski6470

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kerman Guy Oh damn, I ruined it... 88, is 89.

  • @guntertv304

    @guntertv304

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kerman Guy uranium in its metallic form is an alpha radiator too so if you have it in an ampulla you don,t need all of this but if you store it in a bottle and you want to get it out you should do all of this

  • @afcomser

    @afcomser

    8 жыл бұрын

    I was able to handle a plutonium puck while at Hanford, it was in a heavy polymer bag. It was warm to the touch a dull silver grey, I'm still alive

  • @Huffim
    @Huffim7 жыл бұрын

    Even his ties are periodic. The man is chemistry. Period!

  • @SyntheticFuture

    @SyntheticFuture

    7 жыл бұрын

    aaaaaaah, I see what you did there! *fistbump*

  • @mr_underscore5320

    @mr_underscore5320

    7 жыл бұрын

    Imagine his underwear xD

  • @knutarild2181

    @knutarild2181

    7 жыл бұрын

    toungepunch in the fart box?

  • @SD40Fan_Jason

    @SD40Fan_Jason

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bill Nye could benefit from this fashion, hehe

  • @arthurmedeiros4929

    @arthurmedeiros4929

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lol, you got jokes ma man

  • @themeanbean7111
    @themeanbean71112 жыл бұрын

    "I saw plutonium, but I don't think I can tell you where", Totally normal.

  • @ofoxofox1

    @ofoxofox1

    2 жыл бұрын

    I just came to check in comments whether anyone else had a say on that !

  • @valerianardelean9235

    @valerianardelean9235

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably to avoid someone stealing it

  • @sincereflowers3218

    @sincereflowers3218

    2 жыл бұрын

    I mean you wouldn't want the average person handling something so dangerous, makes sense that NDAs and such would get involved.

  • @OdinzEinherjar

    @OdinzEinherjar

    2 жыл бұрын

    I seen it, it was over at Doc Brown's house, he stole it from the Libyans.

  • @ReyOfLight
    @ReyOfLight3 жыл бұрын

    Just love that “mad scientist” type of hairstyle! It’s epic when a pure genius sports that hairstyle!

  • @JooKen
    @JooKen4 жыл бұрын

    "Did you... did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as 'embarrassing'?"

  • @ryncookie9478

    @ryncookie9478

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Yes"

  • @Pr1est0fDoom

    @Pr1est0fDoom

    3 жыл бұрын

    What a madlad!

  • @angelobonanno1859

    @angelobonanno1859

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolute madman!

  • @kousueki7024

    @kousueki7024

    2 жыл бұрын

    what he means is its very embarrassing when the grand children of grand children knowing that their ancestors dont know how to take care their radioactive waste and leaving the next generation with a contiminated planet to live

  • @ferretappreciator

    @ferretappreciator

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kousueki7024I completely get where you're coming from, and what you're saying, but also every single generation will create new problems for the next to solve, somehow. Until, of course, they can't fix the issue and everyone dies... Then there will be no more problems :D (or D:)

  • @TipoQueTocaelPiano
    @TipoQueTocaelPiano9 жыл бұрын

    "Plutonium is dangerous for two reasons: First, because they use it to make bombs..." I agree.

  • @theultimagamer9171

    @theultimagamer9171

    9 жыл бұрын

    Second reason?

  • @TipoQueTocaelPiano

    @TipoQueTocaelPiano

    9 жыл бұрын

    The radioactivity, of course.

  • @TipoQueTocaelPiano

    @TipoQueTocaelPiano

    9 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but usually you don't go around with a piece of plutonium.

  • @rickvasquez6677

    @rickvasquez6677

    9 жыл бұрын

    Dense and weight have nothing to do with each other

  • @riftus87

    @riftus87

    9 жыл бұрын

    Rick Vasquez -_-

  • @Rheologist
    @Rheologist Жыл бұрын

    I'm starting a process engineering job at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, US to clean up the plutonium waste from the Manhattan project in may :)

  • @JimSmithInChiapas
    @JimSmithInChiapas3 жыл бұрын

    08:40 "Plutonium is a fascinating metal." That's an understatement! What a shame that Pu is so dangerous. Among its strange behaviors is that some of its alloys -- e.g. Pu + rare earths -- partially remelt upon cooling (via inverse peritectic reactions). After further cooling,of course, those alloys become completely solid.

  • @dr.borris8034
    @dr.borris80345 жыл бұрын

    Judging by his hair... he did a line of plutonium before the interview

  • @elainevankat5353

    @elainevankat5353

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol!

  • @stephensonselina

    @stephensonselina

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Borris no doubt!

  • @scootergreen3

    @scootergreen3

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ha ha! Yeah!

  • @christianlemelin9862

    @christianlemelin9862

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahahahahah 😂 😂

  • @riggingpots3453

    @riggingpots3453

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rolling over in laughter

  • @CaptivaLP
    @CaptivaLP5 жыл бұрын

    Seriously? Everyone mentioning his hair but NOBODY NOTICED HIS TIE?!?!? That tie is perfection

  • @ankles632

    @ankles632

    4 жыл бұрын

    I saw it and looked it up. They are for sale on Amazon for $7.20 . They even have a variety of colors. I want a " glow in the dark" 1. Really freak people out LOL

  • @marinaholmes4549

    @marinaholmes4549

    4 жыл бұрын

    Did you notice he's not wearing a wedding ring. Mmmmmmm wonder why. 😀

  • @DJHotbuns

    @DJHotbuns

    4 жыл бұрын

    I did. Periodically. 🥴🤓

  • @battletoaster5470

    @battletoaster5470

    4 жыл бұрын

    I did

  • @RandomCoffee101

    @RandomCoffee101

    4 жыл бұрын

    Marina Holmes wedding rings are not allowed in the laboratory

  • @vincentlangel8555
    @vincentlangel85553 жыл бұрын

    I love the plutonium table story! I was a chem minor in undergrad and I miss crazy stories like that.

  • @jasontuck-smith3896
    @jasontuck-smith38962 жыл бұрын

    13:15 'Did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as embarrassing?!' 'Yes!'. Lol I love the Proff.

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi4 жыл бұрын

    There are quite a few (100+) people in the USA fitted with cardiac pacemakers powered by about 2.5Ci of Pu238. This gives off about 80 mW of heat sufficient to power the device for a long time (half-life is 88 years). When the patient eventually dies, the device is recovered and reconditioned for another person who needs one. One man was offered a battery-powered replacement but he refused as it would require minor surgery once a year, and he preferred his plutonium one!

  • @TheAechBomb

    @TheAechBomb

    Ай бұрын

    dang, 80mW seems like a lot for a tiny RTG, the massive soviet terrestrial RTGs only made maybe 100W and were hundreds of pounds.

  • @karhukivi

    @karhukivi

    Ай бұрын

    @@TheAechBomb My mistake - iit should be 80 micro-watts, the "mu" sign switched to an "m" somehow. Well spotted!

  • @TheAechBomb

    @TheAechBomb

    Ай бұрын

    @@karhukivi that makes more sense, thanks :D

  • @jamesgreen1239
    @jamesgreen12394 жыл бұрын

    The name of the haircut is called the “Albert Einstein”.

  • @u.v.s.5583

    @u.v.s.5583

    4 жыл бұрын

    I need a comrade Dyatlov cut.

  • @JoeMilllionaire

    @JoeMilllionaire

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don King

  • @tgmtf5963

    @tgmtf5963

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mushroom cloud haircut

  • @chasiah7101

    @chasiah7101

    4 жыл бұрын

    Walk in too the barbers, What u want there sir? eh can a get an Albert einstein back n sides pls😂

  • @Mr.Oblivian

    @Mr.Oblivian

    4 жыл бұрын

    Einstein was a fraud...

  • @LLO227
    @LLO2273 жыл бұрын

    Dude that's an amazing story!!! How the heck did he recover the 9 milligrams of plutonium by turning it into ashes from a Table!!?? That's impressive

  • @satanas5975

    @satanas5975

    2 жыл бұрын

    insane

  • @doc3row
    @doc3row17 күн бұрын

    I did part 1 chemistry at Lensfield Rd in 1973. Alfie Maddocks was my director of studies. He told me all about dropping Britain's complete supply of plutonium, of course. Did he ever show you the press cutting? "Atom Scientist defects to Perron"? I met him again in 1993, at a funeral. He was very poorly and in a wheelchair, a double amputee, and wasn't up to recognising old students. Lovely man!

  • @HerecomestheCalavera
    @HerecomestheCalavera9 жыл бұрын

    Remember in 1985 when plutonium was available at every corner store?

  • @estebanchacanacontreras546

    @estebanchacanacontreras546

    9 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha

  • @Hiei2k7

    @Hiei2k7

    9 жыл бұрын

    I borrowed it off of some libyan nationalists. They told me to build em a bomb, and in turn I gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!

  • @chef5150dotpsd

    @chef5150dotpsd

    9 жыл бұрын

    great scott i forgot XD

  • @EpicXXProductions

    @EpicXXProductions

    9 жыл бұрын

    I was born in the 90's what are you guys talking about lol

  • @Hiei2k7

    @Hiei2k7

    9 жыл бұрын

    Nothing you'd be interested in, young one. Run along now.

  • @ChristopherSaindon
    @ChristopherSaindon4 жыл бұрын

    His hair has a higher IQ than almost everybody.

  • @dalroache

    @dalroache

    4 жыл бұрын

    What does that mean explain?

  • @coolguy-cu5op

    @coolguy-cu5op

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dalroache it's a joke

  • @BillAnt

    @BillAnt

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Plutonium has a really nasty reputation." ... Noooooohhhh! Really?! xD You know he's a real scientist when you see him write upside down at 5:21 ... also at 6:22 he's still running Windows XP. ;)

  • @westfold2222

    @westfold2222

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeahh i same think . Wkwkwkw

  • @thomasedavis

    @thomasedavis

    3 жыл бұрын

    He took an IQ test on a periodic table.

  • @barrytarr2960
    @barrytarr29602 жыл бұрын

    Mark the glove box guy - reassuring we have experts like him at Sellafield.

  • @AlphaMikeCharlie
    @AlphaMikeCharlie3 жыл бұрын

    He hasn’t changed one bit in 8 years

  • @RhodianColossus
    @RhodianColossus10 жыл бұрын

    Automatic Captions: ''...plutonium is a mom-made element...'' Damn it mom, I wanted cookies not radioactive death.

  • @IKamiZz

    @IKamiZz

    5 жыл бұрын

    plutonium is a PEOPLE-made element.

  • @kencarter9721

    @kencarter9721

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@IKamiZz You are correct. My mom is a person...kinda...

  • @janetsminten8196

    @janetsminten8196

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@IKamiZz its manmade

  • @watchmen22
    @watchmen227 жыл бұрын

    I'm student from nor..err south korea and I'm interested in obtaining Plutonium for um research purposes. Any help is appreciated.

  • @datboidego

    @datboidego

    7 жыл бұрын

    yea 5 grams for $2,500,000 .

  • @theshallowswallow6733

    @theshallowswallow6733

    7 жыл бұрын

    Watchmen22

  • @datboidego

    @datboidego

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Watchmen22 no i think Jon Doe was born with that disease. so sad :/

  • @wakewind4129

    @wakewind4129

    7 жыл бұрын

    didn't you watch the video? You make plutonium from uranium-238 separated from u5

  • @tf3confirmedbuthv54

    @tf3confirmedbuthv54

    7 жыл бұрын

    diego carmona you can't do math

  • @Yeebo__
    @Yeebo__7 ай бұрын

    I love these videos, not just for the information and education, but for the genuine human relationships you all have with one another. It's a breath of fresh air. Thank you, all of you!

  • @alexandroalvarez2464
    @alexandroalvarez24647 ай бұрын

    What an extraordinary and fascinating collection of videos showing chemical elements and their use and origins.

  • @tb8573
    @tb85737 жыл бұрын

    The atomic bomb mushroom-cloud fades perfectly into the shape of his hair at 4:03.

  • @sweeflyboy

    @sweeflyboy

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is sooo underrated...

  • @simonpeter5032

    @simonpeter5032

    5 жыл бұрын

    All that plutonium.

  • @azreenklose7976

    @azreenklose7976

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe he have experience the plutonium effect after all😂😂😂😂

  • @StephenDiJoseph

    @StephenDiJoseph

    5 жыл бұрын

    hahahahahaha....brilliant observation!

  • @JamchesterBoozle

    @JamchesterBoozle

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahahaha what a brilliant shout!

  • @prakrambhushan8328
    @prakrambhushan83284 жыл бұрын

    My brain if I ever get a chance to touch the solution Brain : Drink it

  • @moonbright7373

    @moonbright7373

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @fatdad64able

    @fatdad64able

    3 жыл бұрын

    No please don't. Pass it on to the needy,....Trump, Putin, et cetera.

  • @creepy_regret5542

    @creepy_regret5542

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fatdad64able I will pass it on to you

  • @fatdad64able

    @fatdad64able

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@creepy_regret5542 So I can give it to these idiots? Great idea. I'll include "baby trump" aka Bojo. ^^

  • @somethinginthewalls388

    @somethinginthewalls388

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pu(III) in solution is the forbidden grape soda.

  • @Ezhil-dq8op
    @Ezhil-dq8op5 ай бұрын

    I remember seeing the videos of all the elements in this channel when I was in my high school. I was really proud back then. Thanks for the masterpieces that you gave us

  • @mistrimeat
    @mistrimeat2 жыл бұрын

    Barber: "How can I help you?" Scientist: "Gimme dat Einstein, fam." Barber: "Say no more."

  • @jimdevlin2138
    @jimdevlin21385 жыл бұрын

    AS a retired lab technician I have the utmost admiration for anyone involved in the level of work, working in a chamber like that is never easy more so when using highly toxic and volatile reagents . great work guys

  • @dravenromero1386
    @dravenromero13865 жыл бұрын

    I have to say, I find explosive decaying plutonium barrels far less embarrassing than spilling a country's accumulated amount of plutonium and sawing the table where it fell to retrieve it. I can't stop watching your videos, they are informative, interesting, and entertaining!

  • @josephskulan750
    @josephskulan7504 жыл бұрын

    I met Glenn Seaborg in his actinide chemistry lad at Lawrence-Berkeley labs in 1995. Dangerous as his lab was, it was nothing like the lab down the hall where bromine pentafluoride was used to extract oxygen from silicates.

  • @kaustavsengupta8757

    @kaustavsengupta8757

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, you must be old gentleman. I remember last year when I went to Berkeley, currently they are trying to proof the" theory of island of stability of elements". It's really coll that you seen the actual actinide lab.

  • @josephskulan750

    @josephskulan750

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kaustavsengupta8757 Seaborg was the old one. I was in my 30s. I was at Berkeley working on calcium isotope chemistry at the time. It's a great old lab in a ramshackle building, nothing like the grandiose glass and steel temples of science universities build today to accommodate the egos of Higher Faculty.

  • @kaustavsengupta8757

    @kaustavsengupta8757

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@josephskulan750 may I ask in which field you have done your specialized in? Sorry I m still a Junior research fellow (pursing my PhD)and was on Berkeley for an seminar.

  • @josephskulan750

    @josephskulan750

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kaustavsengupta8757 I specialize in stable isotope chemistry of biological systems. I've mostly concentrated on Ca, but did a postdoc on Fe abut 20 years ago,

  • @VG_164

    @VG_164

    9 ай бұрын

    I know the Soviets tested rocket engines using bromine pentaflouride as an oxidizer 😂

  • @jrodificator1
    @jrodificator14 жыл бұрын

    I love how every single video has comments that say this is guy looks like science

  • @JohnOgunlela
    @JohnOgunlela4 жыл бұрын

    His accent is funny and it makes him fun and so clear to listen to. He's a great chap

  • @codyleslie478

    @codyleslie478

    2 жыл бұрын

    How so? His accent is quite common

  • @a2pabmb2

    @a2pabmb2

    2 жыл бұрын

    Accent? That's what English sounds like when spoken properly.

  • @fractal5764

    @fractal5764

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@a2pabmb2 Accents are relative.

  • @ianwhite6996

    @ianwhite6996

    2 жыл бұрын

    His accent's not funny you dips**t. Its from a southern English county you ignoramus.

  • @getsome4806

    @getsome4806

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yikes. I came here to lambast @John Ogunlela for his unabashed infantilization of a rather serious subject. But, damn...looks like there's no need.

  • @chaos-kun7310
    @chaos-kun73105 жыл бұрын

    "I have seen a lump of Plutonium once - I don't think I could tell you where I saw it" hmm... that's not suspicious

  • @frostynugs4206

    @frostynugs4206

    5 жыл бұрын

    its not like they'll tell people were it is its a bit dangerous lad

  • @davidharrison7014

    @davidharrison7014

    5 жыл бұрын

    Please.....tell us! ISIS wants to know.

  • @fidziek

    @fidziek

    5 жыл бұрын

    in reality not many folks seeing plutonium have survived to tell the story, I suppose...

  • @fidziek

    @fidziek

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@davidharrison7014 Physics is not a priviledge of 'secret societies' - Thus who needs - knows... ISIS - is that something from ancient Egyptology? I'm not au courant, sorry...

  • @gsfbffxpdhhdf7043

    @gsfbffxpdhhdf7043

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mariusz Fidzinski you are a muslim i bet

  • @HansPeter-qo9hc
    @HansPeter-qo9hc7 ай бұрын

    That Tie is absolutely Killer 😍

  • @lilaskiwan2987
    @lilaskiwan29872 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your videos. As a highschool science and math teacher, this is a wonderfull source of inspiration.

  • @fightingillini1717
    @fightingillini17179 жыл бұрын

    That guy with the crazy hair is exactly what I expected a scientist working on plutonium to look like

  • @sarowie

    @sarowie

    9 жыл бұрын

    Proffesor Martyn Poliakoff has a different research focus then Plutonium chemistry. Proffesor Poliakoff researches "green chemistry" or to avoid the word green: environmentally acceptable processes and materials.

  • @mh-ki2dv
    @mh-ki2dv4 жыл бұрын

    But Boris told me it was the equivalent of one chest X-Ray.

  • @smeaglesreturn

    @smeaglesreturn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Max Herman 😂

  • @jolly117s5

    @jolly117s5

    4 жыл бұрын

    No 400

  • @engineer4269

    @engineer4269

    4 жыл бұрын

    3.6 not great. Not terrible.

  • @itzjczzz398

    @itzjczzz398

    4 жыл бұрын

    *CHERNOBYL INTENSIFIES*

  • @bruhbruhh1488

    @bruhbruhh1488

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@engineer4269 he is delusional get him out

  • @JM64
    @JM642 жыл бұрын

    Incredibly educational. Fantastic video.

  • @ciotta87
    @ciotta873 жыл бұрын

    Great videos guys. Very interesting for a chemist to see how to handle this artificial elements

  • @Ilikewater-andice
    @Ilikewater-andice10 жыл бұрын

    0:23 EINSTEIN'S REINCARNATION

  • @SGTBizarro
    @SGTBizarro9 жыл бұрын

    Comment section is more toxic than the damn plutonium.

  • @chickenmonger123

    @chickenmonger123

    9 жыл бұрын

    SGTBizarro Yeah. Worried I am going to get cancer now.

  • @dahntaedeluna

    @dahntaedeluna

    9 жыл бұрын

    Ha

  • @grampton

    @grampton

    7 жыл бұрын

    chickenmonger123, lol.

  • @faizrafii58

    @faizrafii58

    6 жыл бұрын

    plutonium was the most toxic before league of legends created

  • @paper2222

    @paper2222

    6 жыл бұрын

    100% tru

  • @ycmgxekwa
    @ycmgxekwa3 жыл бұрын

    This is thee most interesting documentary I have seen this year. Wow. I can listen to the old man 24/7. I just love brilliant people.

  • @enginebae3471
    @enginebae34712 жыл бұрын

    I spent a few months delivering radioactive material to an underground storage facility in the middle of bfe Utah. I’ve always thought one day I would hear about an “embarrassing” event out there 🤷‍♂️

  • @ThaRealGecko
    @ThaRealGecko7 жыл бұрын

    That hair... Subscribed!

  • @aguuaaa

    @aguuaaa

    7 жыл бұрын

    i also SUSCRIBED cus the hair and nice professor

  • @stevebrodnik2775

    @stevebrodnik2775

    6 жыл бұрын

    He shouldn't have touched the Plutonium!

  • @robinderoos1166

    @robinderoos1166

    6 жыл бұрын

    Steve Brodnik no, he should have licked it!

  • @seaningram4434

    @seaningram4434

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Great Scott!" :) LOL

  • @moriyama333

    @moriyama333

    6 жыл бұрын

    and the tie

  • @FingersKungfu
    @FingersKungfu8 жыл бұрын

    I really like the professor's mad-scientist hair. How did he manage it to be like that ?

  • @Luachair

    @Luachair

    8 жыл бұрын

    +thucydides Neo I remember him when he was very young. It was pretty well like that only black and was more springy.

  • @nnovatakaren5515

    @nnovatakaren5515

    8 жыл бұрын

    +thucydides Neo It's a perk for being a mad scientist

  • @hugglepuff1

    @hugglepuff1

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Nnovata Karen you need to install mods first

  • @jerryg50

    @jerryg50

    8 жыл бұрын

    +thucydides Neo That scientist has a lot of static electricity in his hair. He is basically charged up! I used to work in doing high voltage experiments when I was in university. I had sort of longish hair. My hair was standing up like that scientist's hair...

  • @davidharrison7014

    @davidharrison7014

    5 жыл бұрын

    thucydides Neo Daily trips to a nearby wind tunnel. LOL

  • @sushi_wolf
    @sushi_wolf2 жыл бұрын

    These men are very knowledgeable and professional, great video.

  • @IIIAnchani
    @IIIAnchani6 ай бұрын

    it's a priviledge to see this. Thank you so much for uploading this.

  • @largol33t1
    @largol33t110 жыл бұрын

    A hilarious coincidence is that the guy with the bushy white hair reminds me of Dr. Brown from the movie "Back to the future." And guess what his time machine used? Plutonium.

  • @mrkiky
    @mrkiky4 жыл бұрын

    Damn that guy spilled the entire UK's reserve of Plutonium..... must've been so embarrassing.

  • @mikelouis9389

    @mikelouis9389

    4 жыл бұрын

    He wound up losing half a gram of the most toxic element imaginable. Fun guy to work with.

  • @kyle.s3700

    @kyle.s3700

    4 жыл бұрын

    And apparently he was ok and taught him chemistry

  • @alastairbarkley6572

    @alastairbarkley6572

    4 жыл бұрын

    Huh? Those NNL labs dudes are part of one of the world's largest commercial nuclear fuels recycling and recovery companies. Sellafield, Cumbria, UK receives spent fuel rods from all over the world for reprocessing and storage. It's actually a major British industry. The UK has plenty, plenty plutonium - far more than is sensible, according to environmentalists.

  • @robertmcgovern8850

    @robertmcgovern8850

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alastairbarkley6572 Did you watch the video? The Professor's chemistry teacher, Alfie Maddoch (sp?) spilled nearly the entire UK plotonium reserve on a wooden table, then burned the wooden table section to recover 9/10ths of the spilled element. See 15:10 onward.

  • @josephbrennan370

    @josephbrennan370

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alastairbarkley6572 yes in the present day we have quite a lot but back during ww2 we only had 10 milligrams.

  • @charleskiker8943
    @charleskiker89432 жыл бұрын

    This is super informative. Thanks for sharing.

  • @jermainedavis1909
    @jermainedavis19092 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely fascinating.

  • @Mikesorrento3344
    @Mikesorrento33447 жыл бұрын

    Only a guy with hair like his could get away with wearing a periodic table of elements necktie.

  • @petenielsen6683

    @petenielsen6683

    5 жыл бұрын

    Makes you wonder if Einstein had a similar tie, doesn't it?

  • @arunchhatwani1754

    @arunchhatwani1754

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't have noticed if not for this comment 🤣🤣

  • @alexandrkovin944
    @alexandrkovin9444 жыл бұрын

    I love the smell of Plutonium in the morning. Smelled like... victory. (c) Comrade Dyatlov

  • @JohnSmith-kz8yo

    @JohnSmith-kz8yo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Plutonium stinks..lol

  • @_KennethG

    @_KennethG

    4 жыл бұрын

    Haha

  • @Slothful20

    @Slothful20

    4 жыл бұрын

    Blyatlov

  • @appleslover

    @appleslover

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's impossible for anyone to not love victory chocolate, not literal impossible but illegal..

  • @analogueoverdigital929

    @analogueoverdigital929

    3 жыл бұрын

    3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.

  • @ErpelusMaximus
    @ErpelusMaximus7 ай бұрын

    The haircut of the professor is just the haircut I would imagine the haircut of a crazy nuclear professor.

  • @hdayan1945
    @hdayan1945 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic, congrats and thanks for sharing.

  • @user-ed7gm7ol8k
    @user-ed7gm7ol8k7 жыл бұрын

    this video on my recomended videos for years....

  • @michaelphoscar7509

    @michaelphoscar7509

    7 жыл бұрын

    i too gave in!

  • @user-ed7gm7ol8k

    @user-ed7gm7ol8k

    7 жыл бұрын

    why do you dont take out your eye? its an part of my body

  • @user-ed7gm7ol8k

    @user-ed7gm7ol8k

    7 жыл бұрын

    when ı open this wall hack exe turns on. no blood come out..

  • @hattiewhitson7736

    @hattiewhitson7736

    6 жыл бұрын

    prohri uhri makes me wonder what you’re up to

  • @unpredictiblemateria

    @unpredictiblemateria

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seen this at Black Mesa 😎😀

  • @joycesanders4898
    @joycesanders48984 жыл бұрын

    What I learned-a gallon contains 4 liters.

  • @charlesmcmillion5118

    @charlesmcmillion5118

    4 жыл бұрын

    No. 4 quarts.

  • @ee214verilogtutorial2

    @ee214verilogtutorial2

    4 жыл бұрын

    3.5 liters to be precise

  • @AlexianKing

    @AlexianKing

    3 жыл бұрын

    classic internet 3 different answers

  • @adambattersby4422

    @adambattersby4422

    3 жыл бұрын

    A gallon is eight pints

  • @hardastern5447

    @hardastern5447

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AlexianKing 3.785l to a US gallon to be even more precise ;-) that's four...

  • @crumb_of_nopeamine_plz
    @crumb_of_nopeamine_plz4 жыл бұрын

    The plutonium story is awesome!

  • @j.reinhardt36
    @j.reinhardt368 жыл бұрын

    cool hair: 10/10

  • @348frank348

    @348frank348

    8 жыл бұрын

    8/8 m8. r8 with f8

  • @sliceofgarlicbread6868

    @sliceofgarlicbread6868

    7 жыл бұрын

    He's a chemist!

  • @psychedelicpython

    @psychedelicpython

    7 жыл бұрын

    This guy is too cool!

  • @kazishacez25

    @kazishacez25

    7 жыл бұрын

    your also 10/10

  • @sliceofgarlicbread6868

    @sliceofgarlicbread6868

    7 жыл бұрын

    Manly Boi ???

  • @CiroSantilli
    @CiroSantilli8 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could see a video of the old man speaking continuously all his part. That guy knows how to choose interesting stories things to say, amazing.

  • @alexserrano2850

    @alexserrano2850

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ciro Santilli Why having just him when you can have his awesomeness + more awesomeness?

  • @CiroSantilli

    @CiroSantilli

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Alex Serrano It's just that it breaks my flow. I'd rather have 2 continuous videos instead. Just imagine watching The Godfather and Apocalypse Now at the same time, one minute each :-)

  • @ffejpsycho

    @ffejpsycho

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ciro Santilli lol, in a way (kinda) we did get that movie... It was godfather II (2 totally different, yet related stories inter-spliced together to form a greater understanding of a topic. The movie being the Corleone family). I, and I imagine many others would argue it is a better film even, than the godfather I was.

  • @ajinkyas9948
    @ajinkyas9948 Жыл бұрын

    Science is fascinating. This is an amazing video.

  • @ki11erjosh77
    @ki11erjosh774 жыл бұрын

    I did work experience in one of the labs in that NNL centre, great experience

  • @bonsaipiper3773
    @bonsaipiper37735 жыл бұрын

    Something tells me, (and this is just a shot in the dark) but these guys aren't your typical college graduates.

  • @kentoscocos5238

    @kentoscocos5238

    5 жыл бұрын

    They're on different level than us

  • @ubergeraldine

    @ubergeraldine

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think they are what used to be called Alchemists! @@kentoscocos5238

  • @paulchesser3765

    @paulchesser3765

    5 жыл бұрын

    The guy with the wild hair said he studied chemistry at Cambridge university certainly not your "typical college"

  • @gigicoyle4245

    @gigicoyle4245

    5 жыл бұрын

    Occult Master Alchemists. Freemasons mind controlled drones. Anyone want to be 'edumackated'?

  • @comm744

    @comm744

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@kentoscocos5238 Completely different level! I am a electronics tech (I guy that does the work) and worked with PhD and Masters engineers and could barely understand their "level of understanding" and I have a BA and a licensed electrician. Like Tesla

  • @BillGreenAZ
    @BillGreenAZ4 жыл бұрын

    I looked up "mad sicentist" in the dictionary and this dude's picture was next to the description.

  • @georgewillems32

    @georgewillems32

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Doc" from "Back to the future" has the same hair!

  • @josephinebennington7247

    @josephinebennington7247

    4 жыл бұрын

    What’s a sicentist?

  • @IAmGodHimself777

    @IAmGodHimself777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Josephine Bennington this guy in the video

  • @bicuber8399

    @bicuber8399

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeet What's a videp?

  • @josephinebennington7247

    @josephinebennington7247

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the guy in the vid is a scientist. But I wanted to know what is a sicenist? Oh, forget it......

  • @hedayatsm553
    @hedayatsm5533 жыл бұрын

    Legend has it that the first sample of Plutonium was discovered when Uranium came into contact with his hair.

  • @man_ray_man8945
    @man_ray_man89452 жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is very interesting. Thank you for such a great Channel and informative news. Do you Know the process for separating iridium and osmium from pgm concentrate?? Thank you for your great work.

  • @Peter1Europe
    @Peter1Europe7 жыл бұрын

    Always wear safety glasses while dealing with plutonium.

  • @dustinontaiyabbi5608

    @dustinontaiyabbi5608

    7 жыл бұрын

    it wont save your life though

  • @Nemain

    @Nemain

    7 жыл бұрын

    Welp. Yeah.

  • @Audfile

    @Audfile

    7 жыл бұрын

    and proper shoes

  • @tiger_icecoldlive6762

    @tiger_icecoldlive6762

    7 жыл бұрын

    And if something goes wrong then duck and cover fast!

  • @sp3ccylad

    @sp3ccylad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget a white coat. That's always helpful.

  • @Sneezas
    @Sneezas7 жыл бұрын

    Now this is an scientist!!! Look at his hair! I just love how he looks, gives me the real feeling of working with science

  • @peterwatchesthewatchmen

    @peterwatchesthewatchmen

    7 жыл бұрын

    *a

  • @yeadontwearitout

    @yeadontwearitout

    7 жыл бұрын

    Seriously, this guy should be best friends with Neil and Bill he's hella cool

  • @bruno.henrique

    @bruno.henrique

    7 жыл бұрын

    did you see his tie?

  • @martiddy

    @martiddy

    7 жыл бұрын

    Henry LOL!, the periodic table

  • @nelolson7997

    @nelolson7997

    6 жыл бұрын

    yes his hair gives a great authentic science effect

  • @stevenbaeyens2652
    @stevenbaeyens26524 жыл бұрын

    Must be stressful working with massive gloves when you have such a small container filled with Pu to work with

  • @floydcherade1542
    @floydcherade15422 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting!

  • @libertylagrana
    @libertylagrana7 жыл бұрын

    a walking Periodic Table

  • @deerlord2363

    @deerlord2363

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dang, you're so cute! :3

  • @SlinkiestTortoise23

    @SlinkiestTortoise23

    6 жыл бұрын

    Liberty Lagrana wowed!

  • @bobbyknight1970
    @bobbyknight19705 жыл бұрын

    Homer Simpson carries this stuff around with him in his lunch box everyday.

  • @pinkmilkbmx6258

    @pinkmilkbmx6258

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bobby Knight hahahahaha

  • @gormalfun99

    @gormalfun99

    4 жыл бұрын

    And nothings happened to him so I guess it's safe

  • @exet

    @exet

    4 жыл бұрын

    No because plutonium and uranium doesn't glow if anything Homer Simpson is carrying around radium

  • @farqitol

    @farqitol

    4 жыл бұрын

    Homer, the thinking mans thinking man.

  • @1lovesoni

    @1lovesoni

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's stated to be a carbon rod in one of the games

  • @michaelfoulk1858
    @michaelfoulk18583 жыл бұрын

    Really don’t know why this video showed up in my feed but now I learned something.

  • @mantia39
    @mantia392 жыл бұрын

    This channel is fantastic!

  • @higherresolution4490
    @higherresolution44906 жыл бұрын

    Extremely interesting. Thank you for the post! BTY, I worked in Los Alamos and lived across a small canyon from the original plutonium lab, which was just up the street from the original Tritium Lab. If you're wondering why so many physicists, like Enrico Fermi, died young, this video indirectly gives you the answer.

  • @rudolphguarnacci197

    @rudolphguarnacci197

    5 жыл бұрын

    My dad told me a lot of workers who were involved in the making of clocks with glow-in-the-dark numbers died from radiation poisoning.

  • @stephenverchinski409

    @stephenverchinski409

    5 жыл бұрын

    And a recent study found traces of radionucleatides in the Los Alamos homes.

  • @Asterra2

    @Asterra2

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh, certainly. I read the plutonium book referenced early in this video (owned it since before this video was uploaded). It's made quite clear that scientists dealing with radioactive materials were thoroughly cavalier, even though they definitely had a grasp of the hazards. The ones who were careful simply had a higher incidence of cancer later in life. The ones who were not... well, you only have to watch a documentary about the lives of the workers at Chernobyl to understand how things went for them. You don't immediately die but you suffer a manifest degradation of livelihood. Like getting older decades ahead of schedule, with all the attendant symptoms like heart failure. People who undergo chemotherapy can relate.

  • @chuckgrigsby9664

    @chuckgrigsby9664

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@stephenverchinski409 Don't believe everything you read, and make sure you understand it before you spread it around. There was concern that the somewhat elevated levels of americium (Am) found after the Cerro Grande fire (May 2000) might have been related to activities at the Lab. However, it was later shown that the Am found was due to fire detectors (they contain Am) that were burned in the 400 homes that were destroyed.

  • @stephenverchinski409

    @stephenverchinski409

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chuckgrigsby9664 Academia source document?

  • @killymckillerson3075
    @killymckillerson30756 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos. My chemistry teacher was a total b***h and it was hard for me to get intetested. Now, 20 years later I've found that i have a real interest in chemistry and science in general and KZread has been my classroom.

  • @MixbOOsted

    @MixbOOsted

    4 ай бұрын

    now what are you doing?

  • @johnarmenta2199
    @johnarmenta21992 жыл бұрын

    I don't know what I love more - that guys hair, or his periodic table tie!

  • @jillianc949
    @jillianc94911 күн бұрын

    Sellafield used to be known by a more infamous name - Windscale. In the late 50s it was the site of the UK's worst nuclear accident when one of the nuclear piles they were using to manufacture fuel for nuclear weapons caught fire. It burned for several days, releasing large amounts of radiation into the outside environment.

  • @OneSkiWonder
    @OneSkiWonder9 жыл бұрын

    Is there some law that says in order to be brilliant, you mustn't comb your hair?

  • @Bluemilk92

    @Bluemilk92

    9 жыл бұрын

    OneSkiWonder uh, yeah... duh

  • @heyderyounus786

    @heyderyounus786

    9 жыл бұрын

    If you want to be einstein then yes

  • @theconqueror1111

    @theconqueror1111

    9 жыл бұрын

    OneSkiWonder If you look at Einstein's early photographs, then you will notice a much more clean cut Einstein. His later photos showed a man who woke up put on some clothes and headed out the door to solve the universe.

  • @zolikoff

    @zolikoff

    8 жыл бұрын

    OneSkiWonder It's not universal, but generally people who are preoccupied with deeper thought really don't put very much attention to superficial details like hairstyle, fashion, etc.

  • @XoftC

    @XoftC

    8 жыл бұрын

    +MrWisemasterful Epic! :)

  • @salmonkill7
    @salmonkill74 жыл бұрын

    As a retired expert in Plutonium I can say the information that Plutonium as being man-made is incorrect. It was discovered in southern Africa that a small natural "reactor" made a small amount of plutonium naturally. Pitchblende, a natural mineral that contains Uranium, emits neutrons through the fission process and the neutrons emitted also make trace amounts of plutonium in the mineral so every natural sample that contains uranium can also make small amounts of Plutonium . Therefore Pu, should be listed as a natural element... Steve Miller retired Scientist

  • @Tekknorg

    @Tekknorg

    4 жыл бұрын

    What about Cesium 137 and Strontium 90?

  • @tedkazcynkski4328

    @tedkazcynkski4328

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought you were a retired joker, smoker, midnight toker?

  • @jwenting

    @jwenting

    4 жыл бұрын

    what's also incorrect is that the video states that metallic Plutonium is radioactively toxic because it's an alpha emitter. Human skin will block alpha particles quite readily. What's actually the toxin danger is Plutonium oxides and salts, which are similar to but more toxic than other heavy metal oxides and salts, say lead or mercury salts. And even those you don't want to get on your skin, let alone ingest.

  • @jwenting

    @jwenting

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Carpet Hooligan the amount of Pu in pitchblende is very small. Pu does exist in nature but the amounts are extremely small as it's there as a fission product rather than pristine ore deposits. THOSE have long since fissioned away because of the far shorter half life of Pu as compared to Uranium.

  • @salmonkill7

    @salmonkill7

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Carpet Hooligan yes and no. the distinction between natural and man made is debated. Some in the scientific community think if some atoms are found on Earth then its natural. Others put a natural abundance limit on natural elements but two natural elements on the Periodic chart are very rare also. In my opinion if its found naturally in any amount it's a natural element...

  • @jamiewatchorn7639
    @jamiewatchorn76394 жыл бұрын

    That guys tie is awesome!!

  • @fumanpoo4725
    @fumanpoo4725 Жыл бұрын

    Tacobellium is savage...as is this dude's work with The Melvins.

  • @nathanlynch9634
    @nathanlynch96345 жыл бұрын

    I'm learning more from this channel than I've ever learned from my old school science classes.

  • @john-ic5pz

    @john-ic5pz

    3 ай бұрын

    free will/discovering it on your own makes a big difference ime i got an intro to chemistry from my mum's nursing school chemistry book when I was in junior high. had I waited until sophomore year chemistry class I'd have been bored to tears with chemistry. - chemical engineer

  • @dpring777
    @dpring7778 жыл бұрын

    I feel like I just watched a heavy metal cooking show.

  • @neilpatel8769

    @neilpatel8769

    7 жыл бұрын

    David Pring you mean breaking bad

  • @peglegnoid6139

    @peglegnoid6139

    6 жыл бұрын

    How to serve man.

  • @rodboyd1254
    @rodboyd12542 жыл бұрын

    That's why I love about KZread you always learning something now I know how to do I extract plutonium

  • @securitymanager2938
    @securitymanager29384 жыл бұрын

    "The radioactive waste from spent fuel rods consist primarily of cesium-137 and strontium-90, but it may also include plutonium, which can be considered a transuranic waste. The half-lives of these radioactive elements can differ quite extremely." - Wikipedia "Transuranic" (of an element) having a higher atomic number than uranium (92).

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